Research Bibliography | Guardians.dog

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Bibliography

All sources cited across the Warrior Dog Project, organized alphabetically. This page serves as the canonical reference list for the project’s evidence base.

Covering 30+ papers across genomics, archaeology, ethnography, and classical studies. All images generated for editorial illustration are original works created for this project and are not reproduced from source papers.

Abdelwahed, Y. “More The Pets: Dogs In Graeco-Roman Egypt.” Journal of the General Union of Arab Archaeologists, 2017. Archaeology

Akhand, M. “The Roman Dogma of Animal Breeding: ‘Bark’aeological Findings Reveal the Effects of Selective Pressures on Roman Dogs.” University of Mary Washington, 2020. Classical

Avgerinou, S. et al. “Greek Livestock Guardian Dogs: Genetic and Morphological Characterization.” Animals, 22(6), 2022. Genomic

Bennett, D., Campbell, G. & Timm, R. “The dogs of Roman Vindolanda, Part II: Time-stratigraphic occurrence, ethnographic comparisons, and biotype reconstructions.” Archaeofauna 25, 2016. Archaeology

Bergström, A. et al. “Genomic history of early dogs in Europe.” Nature 651, 986–994, March 2026. Genomic

Grand’al d’Anglade, A. “Dogs Ate Plants: Diet of Ancient Dogs and Livestock Guardian Dog Feeding Patterns.” Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021. Archaeology

Granado, J. et al. “A melting pot of Roman dogs north of the Alps.” Scientific Reports 13:17389, 2023. Genomic

Ikram, S. “Man’s best friend for eternity: dog and human burials in ancient Egypt.” Anthropozoologica 48(2), 2013. Archaeology

Ikram, S., Nicholson, P., Bertini, L. & Hurley, D. “Killing Man’s Best Friend?” Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2015. Archaeology

Kozhahmetov, B. & Baygunakov, D. “The Role of the Dog in the Traditional Kazakh Society.” Bulletin of History №3, 2024. Ethnographic

Marinov, M., Yankova, I. et al. “Evidence for Early European Neolithic Dog Dispersal: New Data on Southeastern Europe.” Genes 11(5), 2020. Migration

Ollivier, M., Tresset, A. et al. “Dogs accompanied humans during the Neolithic expansion into Europe.” Biology Letters 14, 2018. Migration

Ovodov, N.D. et al. “A 33,000-Year-Old Incipient Dog from the Altai Mountains of Siberia.” PLoS ONE 6(7), 2011. Archaeology

Osypińska, M. “New evidence for the emergence of a human–pet relation in early Roman Berenike.” Archaeozoological Studies, 2018. Archaeology

Parés-Casanova, P.M. et al. “Cranial Morphometry of the Kangal Dog.” Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia, 2020. Genomic

Parker, H.G. et al. “Genomic Analyses Reveal the Influence of Geographic Origin, Migration, and Hybridization on Modern Dog Breed Development.” Cell Reports 19(4), 697–708, 2017. Genomic

Van Neer, W., Linseele, V. & Friedman, R. “More animal burials from the Predynastic elite cemetery of Hierakonpolis (HK6).” Archaeozoological Studies, 2017. Archaeology

Vuković-Bogdanović, S. & Jovičić, M. “Dog Burials from the Cemeteries of the Roman City of Viminacium.” 22nd International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies, 2015. Archaeology

Zhang, M., Scarsbrook, L., Li, Y. et al. “Genomic evidence for the Holocene codispersal of dogs and humans across Eastern Eurasia.” Science, November 13, 2025. Migration

Zhou, Y. “Raising Dogs that Bite: How Pastoralists and Breeders Care for Tibetan Mastiffs.” Cambridge University Press, 2023. Ethnographic

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